North America Distribution

Facts About

Many-seeded plantain is a common native plantain of the coastal plain. It inhabits rock and gravel beaches, headlands, upper edges of salt and brackish marshes, and other open areas near the coast. It closely resembles the more common Plantago major except that its leaves tend to be more sandpapery, hairy, and narrow, and the tiny fruits have a rounded rather than pointy top.

Habitat

Anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), meadows and fields

Characteristics

Habitat

terrestrial

New England state

Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Flower petal color

other

white

Leaf type

the leaves are simple (lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets)

Leaf arrangement

the leaves are growing only at the base of the plant (basal)

Leaf blade edges

the edge of the leaf blade is entire (has no teeth or lobes)

Flower symmetry

there are two or more ways to evenly divide the flower (the flower is radially symmetrical)